You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. Family can be a strength, a blessing, and a source of support, but what about those times when family seems to be holding you back or bringing you down?

With the exception of dangerous or life threatening situations, you often have to come to terms with the fact that they will be in your life. Howbeit you don't have to resign yourself to being miserable about it.
In this Video:
00:18 - How Family Might Be Bringing You Down
01:08 - This Brings Positive Energy Into the Moment
02:00 - Bonus Tip: Energy Shifting Tool
02:26 - Do This and Things Will Never Change
02:56 - It's Tough But Doable
03:10 - This Time Proven Action Step Works
03:36 - You Need This to Turn Those Relationships Around
04:07 - Book Recommendation: The 5 Love Languages
05:05 - Quote from - Lindsay Vonn
05:24 - Affirmation to Move You Forward
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Today I want to address a question that came in on Facebook, okay.
How Family Might Be Bringing You Down
Someone wrote in. They were very interested in the topic of communication and I had been sharing a few things, particularly the idea of, "Well, if I am going in a direction in my life and I want to CHANGE, I want to be something different, how does that work, if my own family, my own relatives are bringing me down? They're not going where I want to go and I can't do anything to change that situation."

And this is a question that came to me on a private note, I respect this person's privacy, so no names or anything.

But it’s a very interesting idea and I thought about it and I know that a lot of people are stuck in that situation. The thing about it is that it's not something that you have to just suffer through, there are things that you can do.

Thank you for asking that question because it's a really great question and I know a lot of people are probably faced with this. So hopefully this answer will help many of you out there and let me know if it resonates with you.

Okay so here are some short tips that I believe can really make a difference in this area.
1. This Brings Positive Energy Into the Moment
One of them is, learn to BE PRESENT. Okay, I can’t necessarily tell you exactly how this works and all the science behind it, but it’s a great insight that I learned from studying the work of Eckhart Tolle when he talked about The Power of Now.
And the simple idea is this, when you are present in the moment, you are not DISTRACTED by the future, you are not THINKING about the past, you are not actually trying to GET AWAY from it, you are not REGRETTING the things that you said that put you in this difficult situation, you are not thinking how you could quickly MOVE away from this situation, or get RID of the person, or whatever the case might be.

If you are simply present and just breathe, pay attention to what's going on, listen, really pay attention, a lot of the negativity, a lot of the things that can pull you down will just dissipate because you are in the MOMENT and it's amazing what that does for your life. (Read The Power of Now)
Bonus Tip: Energy Shifting Tool
And I think to tie it together with this, if I could just add, before you end up in those conversations with the person or being around the person, you could also take time just to MEDITATE and that's a real key way of being present.

If you know you're going into that situation, just stop for twenty minutes before and just go into the bathroom or something, and stop for ten minutes and MEDITATE and just get your mind calm and peaceful that when you're in the situation, you are present and you are able to really respond from your heart.

2. Accept What You Cannot Change
Now the next one,